The GOP "Republican Heroes" website - Democrats (of decades/centuries ago) hate black people theme

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http://www.gop.com/index.php/learn/heroes

It's quite fascinating. The civil war rages on, plus a few other tidbits:

In the words of Mary Terrell: "Every right that has been bestowed upon blacks was initiated by the Republican Party."

Abraham Lincoln helped establish the Republican Party with a speech denouncing an 1854 law, written by a Democrat Senator, that allowed slavery to expand into the western territories.

Octavius Catto co-founded the National Equal Rights League and was instrumental in Pennsylvania's ratification of the 15th Amendment, which extended voting rights to African-Americans. Many Democrats resented him for it, and on Election Day in 1871, a crony of the city's Democratic Party boss gunned down Octavius Catto as he walked home from voting.

(Dwight Eisenhower's) administration opposed the Democrats’ segregationist policies. President Eisenhower appointed to the federal bench southern Republicans such as Frank Johnson, John Wisdom, and Elbert Tuttle, who would become civil rights champions. The day after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, President Eisenhower ordered public schools in Washington, D.C. desegregated immediately, not waiting for judges to make “all deliberate speed.” He sent troops to Little Rock to force the Democrat governor in Arkansas to obey a federal court order to racially integrate the public schools.

(Frank) Johnson was a resolute foe of the Democratic Party's segregationist policies.

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1. Yes we did.. but we progressed...the repugs did not..

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2. IMHO Zora Neale Hurston is an interesting old school segregationist Republican

Her father was a Baptist preacher, tenant farmer, and carpenter, and her mother was a school teacher. Though Hurston claimed as an adult that she was born in Eatonville, Florida in 1901, she was actually born in Notasulga, Alabama in 1891, where her father grew up and her grandfather was the preacher of a Baptist church. Her family moved to Eatonville, the first all-Black town to be incorporated in the United States, when she was three. ...

John McWhorter has called Hurston "America's favorite black conservative." <16> She was a Republican who was generally sympathetic to the Old Right and a fan of Booker T. Washington's self-help politics. She disagreed with the philosophies (including Communism and the New Deal) supported by many of her colleagues in the Harlem Renaissance, such as Langston Hughes, who was in the 1930s a supporter of the Soviet Union and praised it in several of his poems. Despite much common ground with the Old Right in domestic and foreign policy, Hurston was not a social conservative. Her writings show skepticism toward traditional religion and affinity for feminist individualism. In this respect, her views were similar to two libertarian novelists who were her contemporaries, Rose Wilder Lane and Isabel Paterson.<17> (link)

The Civil War arguably ranks as the first modern war. It introduced: centralization of power, greenbacks (fiat money to pay for protracted war), income tax, machine guns, trench warfare, and other evils that paved the way for twentieth century world wars.

A Zoroastrian might argue that such evil was necessary to balance the good that came from freeing the slaves.

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3. Oh gee oh my goodness look at all those wonderful

republicans that gave black people their civil rights OVER the objection of the Democrats. But I have one thing to say "just where the hell were most of them doing the marches, the struggles and the voting for civil rights."

In the minds of the manufactures of this bunch of lies I guess.